Word: rakings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). First U.S. broadcast of Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress, with Conley, Gueden, Thebom...
Poet W. H. Auden, a recent collaborator on the libretto for The Rake's Progress by Igor Stravinsky, was appointed to the William Allan Neilson Research Professorship at Smith College...
Assets & Liabilities. The Met needs queues: new productions cost money. In addition to Forza this season, Bing is restyling Puccini's La Boheme, to be sung in two versions-Italian and English-and staging the U.S. premiere of Stravinsky's new opera, The Rake's Progress, also in English (TIME, Sept. 24, 1951). These will bring to twelve the number of new productions Bing has staged in his first three seasons at the Met. Almost all of them have been cheered by the critics (exceptions: 1951's Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci). But even after forgiveness...
...with a pyrotechnic display of wit, venom, vituperation and mock humility. "The U.S.," he told the conferees, is "hagridden by fears: fear of war and unemployment, and fear of peace." He accused Churchill and the U.S. of tying Britain's "economy to a perpetual war machine. This is rake's progress." However, the pink-cheeked Welshman twinkled cheerfully as he castigated his private enemies and Britain's friends alike, "I know I must be careful, lest I make a controversial speech." The audience roared with delight...
Loder, the cynic, and St. John, the rake, crisply thrust and parry with verbal rapiers, while Miss Best as a dowdy but direct matron blunts them both. The frame-work for all this wordplay is Loder's visit to his divorced wife (Brenda Forbes); St. John broke up the marriage five years before and is still hanging around. Miss Best, a relative from Liverpool named Jane, adds her bit to the general tension by entering and announcing her engagement to a man half...